Bulger used smokescreen getaway car, jury told

A murderer told jurors of his days as a close associate of James “Whitey” Bulger, joining him in a double murder in which Bulger wore a wig and fake mustache and escaped in a car capable of sending out a smokescreen or oil slick to deter pursuers.

Kevin Weeks, 57, is the second high-ranking member of Boston’s once- feared Winter Hill crime gang to testify against Bulger, who is accused of 19 murders in the 1970s and 1980s and other charges.

Bulger, 83, who faces life in prison if convicted, spent 16 years dodging the FBI after a corrupt FBI official tipped him off that he was about to be arrested in 1994. He was captured living with his girlfriend in Santa Monica, California, in June 2011.